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Economists ben stein, author of the "little book of bullet-proof investing." ben, i love these topic 's. first of all the pew study shows that 76% of americans either don't trust the government at all or just have some trust in the government. surprising? not surprising? >> not that surprising. the topic is government broken. i'm not sure there wasn't a time when it wasn't largely broken. some parts of it always worked pretty well. i imagine if you are with a group of special forces or rangers, rather, they work pretty darn well. as to various bureaucracies in washington, that's a different ma...

>> last time we fixed financial reform the 1930. >> this is what gives the tea party protesters the fodder. we put so much money into saving all these guys and it's blowing up in our face. >> the president is pushing that this week. here's something interesting. the pew study that shows that eight in ten americans have distrust in the government. americans are anti-regulation except for in financial services. two to one americans want the financial services regulated. people will tell you it's bad for business, it's not, kyra. it's just plain fair. we just need rules that fit today's fair. >> ...

The pew center a couple years ago that found that fox viewers are actually less well informed than other americans. and not that it actually reduces your i.q. but the amount of misinformation and disinformation they found in this pew study, the fact 70% or 80% of fox viewers believe saddam hussein, not osama bin laden, was responsible for 9/11 speaks to what can happen when you watch too much fox. >> is this a turn by the republican party they might be a little more realistic about their colleagues in washington? >> no, i don't think so. i mean, nancy pelosi may have good quality. she might be...

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Don't trust the media, don't like the coverage. i hear this routinely from everyone i know, whether they're in the news business or not, that they're wanting to delete twitter from their phone, delete facebook and turn off from the news because it's so depressing. what i think the problem is overload. when there's outrage every single day, the president manages to normalize it and effectively it means we stop paying attention to really what is outrageous because everything seems outrageous or that's his plan. >> this pew study found a slight difference between the republicans and democrats. 77...